Note 84 — II MADAME DE MAINTENON[73]
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Archbishop of Paris from 1695 to 1729 and uncle of the Duc de Noailles. He favoured the Jansenists, and when in answer to the King’s demand for a Constitution against the Réflexions morales of Père Quesnel the Pope (Clement XI) issued the Bull Unigenitus, he opposed its reception. His nomination as Archbishop had been warmly supported by Mme de Maintenon, but his attitude to the Constitution made a breach between them in ecclesiastical matters. Saint-Simon’s estimate of him (XII. 138-140) is a fair one.